How to use the dblp search API?

Part of the search API is still in flux. So please take the advice below as work-in-progress that may change in the future (although there are no current plans of doing so).

There are three major search services provided by dblp: one for publications, one for persons (authors/editors), and one for venues (journals/conferences/etc). The base search API URL of these services are:

Completions

The auto-completion of search terms is one of the major features of the CompleteSearch engine. The engine will automatically compute the top prefix-matching search terms for the right-most term given in the "q" query Parameter. E.g., "...?q=test+search" will provide completions for the term "search".